8,384 burials at Stanley Cemetery between Stanley and Beamish in Lanchester district. Burials in the Old Section are from the opening of the cemetery in Nov 1891 to May 1977. The New Section opened in May 1914 and burials in the Old Section tailed off rapidly after the 1920s. Our transcription of the New Section runs to 20 May 1932, and we have annotated burials in this section with “buried in the New Section”.

Because these are municipal cemetery records, not church burial records, they present many more genealogically useful details. Just over half of these records give an occupation, either of the deceased, of the father, or of the husband (but, oddly, they do not actually name the father or husband). Some give information about how or where the person died. Here are some samples:

The burials at Bethel Chapel were in underground vaults with alley-ways, which were added to the chapel in 1826. The 1827 Gazetteer of Durham says “Bethel Chapel, in Villiers-street, erected in 1817 and enlarged in 1826, is under the Congregational or Independent order of church government, and the Rev. Thomas Stratten is the present minister. A cemetery, constructed upon a novel plan, has just been attached to this chapel; it consists of long narrow vaults, arched over with brick work, all of which are approached through one entrance, so secured as to preclude the possibility of the bodies being feloniously disinterred.” In 2006, a ground-penetrating radar survey was carried out by Ian Farmer Associates at the site of the Bethel Chapel at 12-14 Villiers Street. The report summary says, “A complex presence of interconnecting tunnels and vaults were identified and there may have been three areas used for burial. “ Here is an article about locating the crypt in 2010:

Marriage bonds 1827-1828

984 marriage bonds filed in 1827 and 18286 in the Diocese of Durham. These are brand new, not previously in the bond index.

In this period, marriage bonds often provide ages, occupations, place of residence, and sometimes a father or mother for the bride and groom during a period when marriage registers did not provide that information. Please read the Marriage Bonds section of the Transcription Samples page for a description of what information is found in bonds, allegations, and associated documents, and how we present that information.

Samples:

27 Dec 1827 John Iceton (widower), age 45, of Sedgefield, County Durham obtained a licence to marry Margaret Storow (spinster), age 21 and upwards, of Auckland St.Andrew, County Durham, directed to St.Andrew

21 Apr 1828 Joseph Heslop (stonemason, bachelor, minor with consent of his father), age 18, of Barnard Castle, County Durham, son of John Heslop, obtained a licence to marry Alice Kane (spinster, with consent of her father ), age 17, of Darlington, County Durham, daughter of John Kane, directed to Darlington

Marriage bonds cover the entire Diocese of Durham i.e. Durham, Northumberland, North Yorkshire. There are a few licences in the collection that were issued by York. Because bonds cover the whole diocese, there is no way to limit your search of bonds to a single district. If you select a district from the District menu, your selection will be ignored when the marriage bonds database is searched.

Whitburn and Gateshead Fell marriage witnesses added

added 998 witnesses to the 494 marriages at Gateshead Fell St. John, from the start of that parish in 1825 to the beginning of civil registration on 1 July 1837. Also added one marriage missed the first time around.

added 308 witnesses to the 106 marriages at Whitburn St. Mary from the start of 1813 to the beginning of civil registration on 1 July 1837. There are now the witnesses transcribed for all Whitburn marriages, from when witnesses started appearing in 1754

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